A thing I really like about pipelines in shell scripts, is all of the buffering and threading implied by them. Semantically, you can see what command is produc

A thing I really like about pipelines in shell scripts, is all of the buffering and threading implied by them. Semantically, you can see what command is producing output, and what command is consuming it. With some idea of how the CPU will be split by them. This is far different than the pattern described in the article, though. Small shame they have come to have the same name. I can see how both work with the metaphor; such that I can't really complain. The "pass a single parameter" along is far less attractive to me, though.